Database Optimisation Contract Job Trends in South London

Database Optimisation
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Database Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Database Optimisation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
London median daily rate £563 £625 £523
% change year-on-year -10.00% +19.62% +7.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South London

Database Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 265 148 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 83.60% 85.55% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 87 117
10th Percentile £413 £213 £320
25th Percentile £456 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -5.30%
75th Percentile £575 £636 £567
90th Percentile £725 £712 £730
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.70 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £17.85 £15.84 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.69% -18.77% -61.99%
75th Percentile £19.50 - £71.88
90th Percentile - £17.98 £73.75
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year +20.34% -16.31% -15.06%

Database Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Database Optimisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Database Optimisation job vacancy trend in South London

Database Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Database Optimisation within the South London region over the 6 months to 9 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Croydon - 1 £550 -
Database Optimisation
London

Database Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Reconciliation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform